Enamor vs Captivate - What's the difference?
enamor | captivate |
To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of'', or ''with , before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
* :
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
As verbs the difference between enamor and captivate
is that enamor is to inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of'', or ''with , before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science while captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.enamor
English
Alternative forms
* enamour (British spelling) * inamor (archaic) * inamour (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.
References
*Anagrams
* * * *captivate
English
Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
